A retired Milwaukee priest has been barred from hearing confession and giving absolution, following an essay he wrote favoring legislation that would require priests to report child abuse they learn of during confession. Archbishop Jerome E. ...
(OSV News) — Two new alternatives to burial and cremation fail to comply with the Catholic Church’s teaching on respect for the bodies of the dead, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Doctrine ...
The National Eucharistic Revival announced it will release what it called the "first-of-its-kind" mystagogy series of weekly catechetical reflections throughout the Easter season to "invite all Catholics deeper into the mysteries of Christ by reflecting ...
A Philadelphia Catholic school community whose parish has historical ties to St. John Neumann is recovering after a March 21 fire devastated its building. A three-alarm blaze broke out at Our Mother of Consolation Parish School ...
A still-pending ruling by a federal judge in Texas could pull an abortion drug from the market across the United States. A lawsuit by a coalition of pro-life opponents of the drug mifepristone, the first of ...
There is no shortage these days of proposed state and federal government legislation directed at both safety and liability in a digital environment that almost everyone -- perhaps with the exception of Big Tech companies ...
A lecture series on "reproductive justice" at the University of Notre Dame is advancing "activist propaganda" rather than "conducting a neutral inquiry or exploring the debates within this field," Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort ...
A broken rosary has become the inspiration to heal the war-torn nation of Ukraine, thanks to the efforts of a Philadelphia-area Ukrainian Catholic man and a dedicated group of volunteers. Several years ago, 38-year-old Dorian Kernytsky ...
Bishop Kevin Rhoades warns against a lecture series promoting abortion at the University of Notre Dame that dissents from the culture of life.
A private, lay-led effort to root out clergy sexual misconduct in the Catholic Church by exposing their use of dating apps has raised concerns such methods may actually make it more difficult for the church ...